07.27.15 - (PRESS
RELEASE)
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW Committee) has called on the Croatian government to take concrete steps
to improve the quality of care provided to pregnant women during child birth.
It also called on Croatia to ensure…

07.17.15 - (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (U.N. CESCR) has called on the Ugandan government to reform and clarify its laws severely restricting abortion services…

07.14.15 - The Center and over 50 human rights organizations from
across the globe issued this joint statement to the Human Rights Committee for
its day of discussion on the right to life, calling on the Committee to take
into account the risks women and girls face to their lives as a result of…

07.09.15 - In
a 2011 groundbreaking judgment, R.R. v. Poland, the European Court held
that Poland’s failure to provide a woman timely access to prenatal genetic
testing and information allowing her to make an informed decision about her
pregnancy amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment…

06.29.15 - (PRESS RELEASE) The European Social Charter does not entitle health professionals in Sweden to invoke personal or moral objections as an excuse to deny women reproductive health services, according to a recent decision by the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR), the body that…

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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing in the case
of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín, an Ecuadorian teenager who was
sexually abused repeatedly by her school’s vice-principal for two years.
Petita Albarracín, Paola’s mother, told the Commission about her…